Kavanaugh accuser referred to DOJ for false statements, Grassley’s office announces
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday referred a woman who'd accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of raping her “several times” in the backseat of a car to the Justice Department for “materially false statements” and “obstruction.”
Kavanaugh, confirmed to the high court on Oct. 6, was infamously accused by multiple women of sexual assault and misconduct before the confirmation.
Judy Munro-Leighton, according to Grassley’s office, “alleged that Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her ‘several times each’ in the backseat of a car.”
Those accusations were made via a "Jane Doe" letter provided to Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and committee member, Grassley’s office wrote.
Upon further investigation, however, inconsistencies in the story emerged.
“Given her relatively unique name, Committee investigators were able to use open-source research to locate Ms. Munro-Leighton and determine that she: (1) is a left-wing activist; (2) is decades older than Judge Kavanaugh; and (3) lives in neither the Washington DC area nor California, but in Kentucky,” Grassley’s office wrote.
“Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms. Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted by ... Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original 'Jane Doe’ letter,” Grassley’s office wrote in a Friday referral to the DOJ.
“When directly asked by Committee investigators if she was, as she had claimed, the ‘Jane Doe’ from Oceanside California who had sent the letter to Senator Harris, she admitted: ‘No, no, no. I did that as a way to grab attention. I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of the call to your Committee. . . . I saw it online. It was news.”
“In short, during the Committee’s time-sensitive investigation of allegations against Judge Kavanaugh, Ms. Munro-Leighton submitted a fabricated allegation, which diverted Committee resources. When questioned by Committee investigators she admitted it was false, a ‘ploy,’ and a ‘tactic,’” Grassley’s office wrote. “She was opposed to Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.”
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Today, Chairman @ ChuckGrassley referred Judy Munro-Leighton to @ TheJusticeDept for investigation for making materially false statements to the Committee during the course of its investigation.
https://www. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ 2018-11-02%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Munro-Leighton%20Referral)%20with%20redacted%20enclosures.pdf …
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Friday’s referral to the DOJ was not the first time Grassley has asked for an investigation into Kavanaugh’s accusers.
Last week, Grassley referred attorney Michael Avenatti and client Julie Swetnick -- who'd accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct -- for criminal investigation regarding a potential “conspiracy” to provide false statements to Congress and obstruct its investigation.
Avenatti is also a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and works as the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels, who maintains she had a sexual encounter with President Trump years before his election. Avenatti represented Swetnick, who accused Kavanaugh during confirmation proceedings of being involved in or present at “gang” and “train” rapes at high school parties in the 1980s.
Kavanaugh denied all the claims against him.
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It is no longer front page news, but accusers are now quickly becoming the accused.
And it’s about time. It was terrible, the lies they all fabricated to try to keep a great person off of the Supreme Court.
Don't worry, most people saw it for what it was
Senator Harris Should want to sue the crap out of this women for lying, since Miss Harris is/was a Lawyer. But I suppose, she won't, since this seems to have been her "Evil Stepchild" in that Kavanaugh hearings charade, and the "Left" ALWAYS Protects their own no matter what.
Let me announce from the start that Trump, "racism" and "misogyny" are all off topic
You'll silence our liberals!
I'm afraid so. It's hard to play with so few cards
I don't know anything about this particular woman and her accusations, so I'll just leave that to investigations. But if anybody thinks this makes Christine Blasey Ford's accusations less true, you've got another thing coming. If dems get control over a committee maybe a REAL investigation will be done and we will find out if Kavanaugh lied, which I think he did. [deleted] We will find out the truth one day, but not until the enablers and protectors are voted out.
They cannot be characterized as either true or false. At present they are unsubstantiated.
If dems get control over a committee maybe a REAL investigation will be done and we will find out if Kavanaugh lied, which I think he did.
What if they discover that Ford lied? Specifically about teaching another woman how to take a polygraph test? I will bet you here and now that if democrats win the House, they won't dare go there!
Who? Never heard of her. Certainly doesn’t discredit all the other allegations. Kav is a liar, plain and simple, and he’s on the US Supreme Court. That is shameful.
Lol hilarious ..... from the article. She’s proven to be:
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Where she’s going she’s really gonna find out about rape. At least she’ll be getting three hots and a cot.
And this is why due process matters and accusations themselves shouldn't count as proof.
Democrats got what they deserved after what they did to justice Kavanaugh. It will be great that he will be on the Supreme Court for the rest of my life.
Just another example of why our systems of justice and truth-finding cannot be based on "believe women." If you think "no one would ever lie about a thing like that" or "she must be telling the truth because she's got nothing to gain by lying," you couldn't be more wrong.
The GoFundMe Campaigns That Have Raised $840,000 for Christine Blasey Ford Make Me a Little Squeamish
Uh huh.
Maybe Mrs. Ford needs some more "safety doors"?
Your comment is an extremely miscalculated assumption about my personal life and beliefs. You're also not in a NT position in which you can demand that I keep my comments to myself.
When some have no argument they get mad and insist that others stop talking.
But she had nothing to gain from coming forward!
Outside the million dollars and book offers and screenplays still to come, of course.
Let's not leave out a political leaning
I recall hearing opinions from people- men and women- who claimed to have been sexually assaulted who said they did not believe Ford and that anybody who is really assaulted usually can remember every detail, including the date, exact location and who was there.
How about you show some consideration for people falsely accused of assault, like daycare workers wrongly convicted due to "repressed memories" or guys exonerated thanks to the Innocence Project?
A profitable exchange.
LOL. The misogynistic comments from the right wingers here show exactly why there's a 34 point gender gap leading up to the election.